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NEWS AS IT HAPPENS:

India’s First Unmanned Space Mission Fails

BANGALORE: India’s space agency says its first unmanned moon probe has malfunctioned and it may have to curtail the two-year mission.The Chandrayaan-1, which costs $79 million, was launched in October to map the lunar surface and look for precious metals.The chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation says the probe’s

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New Michael Jackson Single Released

LOS ANGELOS: A new Michael Jackson song titled, “A Place with No Name” was unveiled on the celebrity news website, TMZ.com, three weeks after the death of the King of Pop.The website, which was also the first media outlet to report Jackson’s death, carries the snippet of the song.It also

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2 Workers Die As Stage For Madonna Concert Collapses

MARSEILLE: A stage being constructed for a concert by pop star Madonna collapsed on Thursday (July 16), killing two workers and injuring eight others in the southern French city of Marseille.The July 19 concert at the Velodrome stadium, home to the Olympique Marseille soccer team, was immediately cancelled.The dead workers

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Russian Minister Gunned Down

MOSCOW: Two people were killed in an attack on a car in Ingushetia on Friday.Officials initally denied reports that a regional minister was among the dead.Unidentified assailants opened fire at a Kia car in the village of Sredniye Achaluki in Ingushetia.Ruslan Balayev was the sports and tourism minister for Ingushetia,

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Drone Near Miranshah Kills Five

BAHADUR KALEY: Atleast five people have been killed on Friday, when a US drone fired a missile into a suspected Taliban compound in Pakistan’s tribal belt near the Afghan border.The missile strike took place in Bahadur Kaley village, which is 30 kilometers south of Miranshah.According to security officials, the missile

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Health

Congress Legislators Stage Sit-in Protest Against Hooch Tragedy

Tuesday, July 14th, 2009

GUJARAT: Legislators of Congress, the main opposition party in India’s western Gujarat state, staged a sit-in protest against last week’s hooch tragedy that killed at least 105 people.
Deputies blame the state’s Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government, led by Narendra Modi, for the deaths.
Congress legislators alleged that a BJP Corporator from Ahmedabad was behind [...]

Frogs to Cure Dengue Crisis

Monday, July 6th, 2009

SAN LUIS CITY: Bizarre problems, bizarre solutions.
Argentinians are realizing that adopting frogs might be the answer to dengue fever.
San Luis City in Argentina is adopting the frog as its provincial hero.
Argentinean streets are suffering a major dengue fever outbreak, and putting frogs in gardens at home is becoming a favorite antidote.
A local councilor has taken [...]

School for HIV+ Kids

Sunday, July 5th, 2009

Thirteen HIV positive children are studying and living in China’s only AIDS school, determined to overcome the deadly disease.

Quarantine Over For The Only Pig in Afghanistan

Sunday, July 5th, 2009

Afghanistan’s only known pig trotted out of quarantine on Saturday (July 4), two months after he was locked away because of swine flu fears, to bask again in the mud at the Kabul Zoo.

Chinese School for HIV Kids

Sunday, July 5th, 2009

LINFEN: Thirteen HIV-positive children are studying and living in China’s only AIDS school, determined to overcome the deadly disease.
The school for the infected children is in the outskirts of Linfen city in the country’s central Shanxi province.
The students, whose ages range from 7 to 14, were born with the HIV virus and have lost their [...]

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